Christian M. Gut has served as our Class C Director since the closing of our initial public offering in December 2013. He is the co-founder and co-manager of Luxembourg based Millennia SICAV-RAIF, a consumer credit strategies specialist, and of its sub-fund P2P Lending Fund launched in 2018. Mr. Gut started his professional career at ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG (as it then was) in Essen, Germany in 2002. He later joined Singapore based EABC Pte Ltd., or EABC, in 2003 where he served as Director from 2006 to 2018. EABC’s services comprised market intelligence and strategy, sales promotion and support to project management in selected Asia Pacific countries, principally Australia. Furthermore, Mr. Gut was a co-founder and a former co-manager of the Stellar Energy Fund, launched in Singapore in 2006, which invested in fossil and renewable energy focused private companies in Asia, Middle East and Europe with exposure on the following industries: oil trading and bunkering, gas E&P, solar, geothermal and power generating heat plants. Mr. Gut has a Bachelor’s degree in international business from the European Business School in London.